Saturday, June 9, 2018

EU chief Juncker in 2015 said the West must treat Russia as an equal. He said: 'When Barack Obama said Russia was a regional power...You can't talk about Russia like that'-AFP, 10/8/2015....(US oligarchs think Ukraine is their "prize." After 22 years and $5 billion US tax dollars they finally won the "prize," Ukraine's 44 million people)

"I
know from my conversations with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin that
he (does not accept) phrases like when Barack Obama said Russia was a
regional power. What does that mean? You can't talk about Russia like
that," Juncker told a conference in the southern German town of Passau.

Europe and the US have imposed sanctions on Russia as a result of its annexation of Crimea early last year.

Western
nations have also been highly critical of Russia's military
intervention in Syria, accusing Moscow of seeking to prop up the regime
of President Bashar al-Assad more than tackling the Islamic State
jihadists operating there."